Seagate NAS HDD 4TB Review

The arena for NAS-targeted hard drives has just welcomed a second combatant: Seagate’s “NAS HDD”. Like WD’s Red series, NAS HDD is designed to work well with RAID controllers, has improved vibration-reduction, and additional power profiles. Unlike WD’s Red, NAS HDD has a 4TB model. Let’s see how that one stands up.

Synthetic: HD Tune Pro 5.0

One of the best-known storage benchmarking tools is HD Tune, as it’s easy to run, covers a wide-range of testing scenarios, and can do other things such as test for errors, provides SMART information and so forth. For our testing with the program, we run the default benchmark which gives us a minimum, average and maximum speeds along with an access time result, and also the Random Access test, which gives us IOPS information.

Seagate’s NAS HDD has an excellent showing here, landing itself midway up the charts with regards to read and write throughput. Its access times are a bit lacking, but typical of low-RPM offerings (and still beats WD’s Red).

Nice review! Im in that exact position where Im ready to buy a 4-bay NAS but I dont want to use 3TB drives when the 4TB’s are just around the corner (or just arrived as I could read in your article). I would love a comparison between WD RED 3TB and this drive.

http://techgage.com/ Rob Williams

Will see what I can do! I’d really, really like to know if WD is planning to come out with a 4TB Red model soon. It’d be frustrating if someone were to go grab 3TB models and then a 4TB come out right afterwards.

Anonymous

…and now 4TB are around, with 5TB coming soon. :)

http://techgage.com/ Rob Williams

Yup! We have 2 of them in the house, and in a couple of weeks will be doing a match-up against Seagate’s drives, both internal in a PC and in a high-performance NAS. Stay tuned :)